The News Review:
- The right to write: should sports stars publish and be damned?
- Soccer-Ferguson hits back at sports minister over ticket prices -…
- ASPIRE Promotes the Spirit of Sport
- Boycott: Sport’s dirty laundry out of control
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
The right to write: should sports stars publish and be damned?
Times Online – Nov 2, 2007
If players and management do not stay within agreed boundaries they commit a betrayal of trust. This has been done so that correct url isgenerated if we are coming from a section or topic –>Sir Clive Woodwarddiv#related-article-links p a div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}As someone involved in elite sport I have to be a realist and as such I amnot against players or coaches writing books or newspaper columns. We alllike to read them but recent furores have shown the dangers of allowing afree-for-all. Duncan Fletcher has undoubtedly damaged his reputation withhis revelations about Andrew Flintoff’s drinking.
Soccer-Ferguson hits back at sports minister over ticket prices -…
ESPN – Nov 2, 2007
Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said Premier League clubs were indanger of pricing out supporters and singled out United addingthat they had increased their season tickets by 13 percent. Sutcliffe also described top players’ wages as obscene. Ferguson refuted the comments on ticket prices telling anews conference on Friday that the average increase at his clubwas less than 11 percent. “What I do object to is the sports minister coming out withthis stuff about ticket prices and singling out ManchesterUnited” he said.
ASPIRE Promotes the Spirit of Sport
Al-Bawaba – Nov 2, 2007
Always seeking to enhance its reputation for innovation and excellence in the field of sports and following one of its key visions of promoting a stronger sporting culture in Qatar and the region ASPIRE is in the development stage of creating an unique in-house sport science based experience one which Dean of ASPIRE Prof. Dieter Hackfort President of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) says will showcase ‘the history of sport its present as well as taking a look into the future’.
Boycott: Sport’s dirty laundry out of control
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 2, 2007
I am not suggesting a total ban like the Official Secrets Act — that would never stand up to scrutiny. I am talking about putting a time lock on players’ memoirs. Cabinet documents are held back under the 30-year rule but sport is less sensitive and faster-moving than politics so two years ought to do it. A two-year delay would take the sting and immediacy out of these reminiscences. By 2009 no one would be getting too excited about what Catt and Dallaglio thought about the World Cup — the game would have moved on. And the same with Flintoff who is in a delicate place at the moment. The fact that he let himself down by boozing in Australia would have felt far less emotive and damaging once everyone knew which way his career was headed… Some clever-clogs out there might point out that I wrote my own autobiography just a year after I retired. Looking back it would have been better if I had held it back another year. There was not too much in there to upset the England hierarchy but it certainly wound up the Yorkshire committee who had been doing their best to sack me for the previous eight years! Ultimately sport is not just about the present set of players and what they can get out of it. It is also about administrators spectators and future generations. People should think about what is best for the game and remember that it is bigger than any one individual. The authors of all these shameless cash-ins owe sport a hell of a lot; it is sad to see them tarnishing its name.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Nov 2, 2007
Alonso who won the F1 championship in 2005 and 2006 with Renault joined McLaren for the 2007 season and finished tied for second in this year’s driver standings. He won four races and had 14 top-five finishes in 17 starts but a third-place result in the final race of the year left him one point behind champion Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari. “Since I was a boy I had always wanted to drive for McLaren but sometimes in life things do not work out” said Alonso in a statement. “I continue to believe that McLaren is a great team.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Nov 2, 2007
agreed to purchase New Hampshire International Speedway from Bob and Gary Bahre for $340 million in cash NASCAR announced Friday. The deal is expected to be completed by early next year and then the track is expected to be renamed New Hampshire Motor Speedway. For now the two NASCAR Nextel Cup dates at the track will remain. It hosted the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 in July and the Sylvania 300 this September but nothing is guaranteed beyond next year as to whether one or both of those races will be moved. NHIS is the host to the lone NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series events held in the six-state New England region.
